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Linux GTD roll call

Hi everyone,

Anyone else using Linux as their day-to-day OS? I switched my work laptop over completely a while ago, though I still run Windows under a VMWare VM for the sake of accessing Lotus Notes and a few other work requried Windows apps.

What office pr0n tools have folks used under Linux? I've played around with VIMOutliner and GnomeTasks, along with several stand alone wikis. My team is using the NotesWiki template from OpenNTF for shared information and that's worked out fantastically.

TOPICS: GNU/Linux
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I've used both org and...

I've used both org and planner modes, and I think that while they have similar goals -- helping you to organise your life -- and similar functions -- calendars, todo lists, links to your address book or to external files -- the main difference is in the way information is organised. Planner mode is built on top of emacs wiki mode and seems to work best if you use lots of small files for projects and calendar days, for example. Org mode is more flexible in structure so you could keep everything in one big text file if you wanted to.

(Personally, I'm intrigued but confused about the one-big-text-file approach. Would you include things like article/story drafts in there? And it wouldn't work for programming, would it?)

 
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